Explain The Effects Of Challenging Behaviour

As I am going to do work experience within Northfields School and will come across individuals who have learning difficulties and may display challenging behaviours such as verbal abuse. However, I will be able to use the five strategies I have chosen above to help me minimise the effects of challenging behaviour. The first strategy is effective verbal communication, I would implement this within Northfields School to help minimise verbal abuse. For example, a professional within the school may be demanding by telling the children to work constantly and not all children are able to handle being demanded repeatedly. A child who I might be working with within my work experience may have ADHD and get frustrated and begin to be verbally abusive by shouting and swearing. In this case, it is my responsibility to try ease the situation. Instead of me replying back at the child who has ADHD at the same tone of voice as the child by shouting back and demanding the child to
Professionals who work with vulnerable groups must ensure they treat them the same as any other individual and support them as they are responsible for the service users. Safeguarding the children with Northfields School will enable the children who have learning difficulties to feel wanted and that the professionals want to actually support them and keep them safe rather than just doing their job because they have to. Safeguarding children with learning difficulties when supporting them will enable the children to feel safe within the environment they are in and with the professionals as they will have a sense of safety and know that they are in safe hands. This will make the effective verbal communication active and easier as it will improve the support received by the children because they are in a safe place and with professionals who are aware of how to deal with challenging behaviours such as verbal